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June 06, 2024
M365 Monitoring
For about a year now, our programming team had a project on the ‘wish’ list regarding our Managed Microsoft 365 offering. How could we determine a baseline that included backups, MFA setup, and a host of our standard configurations across all our M365 customers? Then with that baseline, write a monitoring tool that would tell […]
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May 30, 2024
Tech Status Quo
A few definitions: Status Quo: the existing state of affairs regarding social or political issues; the way things are now; an existing state of affairs. The existing order of things; present customs, practices, and power relationships. Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction; two words or phrases used together […]
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April 24, 2024
The Collaborative Way: Book Review
This book was recommended to me by a fellow C12 member. Scott has all new hires read this book, and they reference the terminology and structure as they interact with each other. The book is set up as a story; there are the ‘current’ events and ‘three years ago’ to show the original introduction of […]
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April 18, 2024
Accruing Use Tax
Many contractors purchase materials under a retail sales tax certificate. It’s presented to your suppliers, and the supplier does not charge sales tax. It’s your company’s responsibility to pay the Use Tax on the materials. Great for cash flow, but lots to consider here. This is when I usually hear that quite a bit of […]
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April 10, 2024
File Length & Data Limits
With more and more clients in SharePoint and OneDrive, we’ve seen a small bump in the number of users calling in with issues. They are having trouble opening files. When we log on and take a look, more often than not, the file length is too long; there is a limit. When we move a […]
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April 03, 2024
First Contact Safety
At Syscon, we’ve enabled a new feature and we have tested it for YOU! When an email comes in, if the sender is contacting you for the first time, or it’s someone you don’t receive regular correspondence from, the opening line of the body of the email says ‘You don’t often receive email from..’ followed […]
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March 20, 2024
Some Fun!
Happy April! Did you know that not all our video sessions end up in our email blasts? Here are some fun outtakes! Hope it brings a smile.
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March 20, 2024
ACH Scam – Team Update
Recently a client received an email asking that future ACH payments go to a new bank and account. It was a really ’good’ email and in many ways, looked legit; it wasn’t! All the names, spellings, and other details looked just right. When you got to the bottom of the email, the domain name was […]
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March 13, 2024
S100C: More Tips
A Few S100C Tips Changing banks? Many of us have a default General Ledger account in various cash screens including 3-3, 1-2, 1-1, 4-3-2, 5-2-4, and so on. If you’d like to change the account default, be sure you log in with Administrator Rights, then in the account field, enter the new account, then go […]
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March 07, 2024
AP Records-Missing PO’s
You’re working through your Cost to Complete numbers and notice the costs plus committed costs are way over budget. With a little digging, you realize one (or more) of the AP invoices were entered without referencing the original Purchase Order (PO) or Subcontract, so there are remaining committed costs even though you’ve already been billed. […]
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